Emery made 27 saves for his second straight shutout, Daniel Alfredsson scored in the first minute and Ottawa extended the
Rangers' losing streak to seven games with a 1-0 victory Friday night.

The Senators won their third in a row since losing top center Jason Spezza to a knee injury, two nights after Emery stopped 18
shots in a 2-0 home win over the New York Islanders.

Ottawa, which led the NHL in goals last season and is among the league's
highest scoring teams with 124 overall, also lost center Mike Fisher to a knee injury Wednesday.

"We're down to the point where we're missing bodies and most of the
games we win are going to have to be like that, unless our power play
gets hot," said Emery, who has six career shutouts, including three this
season. "It's encouraging to see the guys dedicated to winning, and
willing to win those tight games."

The Rangers were shut out for the second straight game. The losing
streak is their longest since an eight-game skid in the wake of the 2004
trading deadline.

"Nobody's going to help us but us, so we have to face it," said captain Jaromir Jagr, who was stopped by Emery late in the second on one of
the Rangers' best -- among their few -- scoring chances.

New York, which hadn't been held scoreless in consecutive games since
the beginning of the 2003-04 season, had been shut out just once in its
first 37 games before Tuesday night's 2-0 road loss to the New York
Islanders.

"I knew he was going to deflect it, but I still had to go for it with my
glove and the deflection went five-hole," Lundqvist said. "It was a
tough start for us."

The Senators held the Rangers to four shots in the first, which saw New
York hold a power play over the final 3:25 of the period after Ottawa's
Chris Neil was assessed a charging major for his hit on Matt Cullen
along the boards.

"We didn't have many chances," Jagr said. "We didn't even take advantage
of a five-minute power play."

Rangers coach Tom Renney was upset that Neil wasn't ejected from the
game for his hit on Cullen.

"The way I read the rules, if there's an injury to the face or the head
on any kind of hit like that -- where a player leaves his feet and
there's a 5-minute penalty, it's, 'See ya later!' It's in the book,"
Renney said.

Lundqvist denied a couple of chances on a short-handed break by
Alfredsson in the opening period, stopping the Ottawa captain's first
shot before sprawling to make a glove save on Alfredsson's shot off the
rebound.

The Rangers, who have lost all seven games in regulation, are on their
worst losing streak since they went 0-5-0-3 from March 12-25, 2004,
after cutting their payroll by dumping salary, notably trading Brian
Leetch and Martin Rucinsky.

The consecutive shutout wins were the first time Ottawa accomplished the
feat since a 3-0 win in Boston on Dec. 30, 2003, followed by a 1-0 win
over the Islanders on Jan. 1, 2004.